Samsung's STAR program takes back all their ink and toner cartridges with pre-paid postage labels that you can print. If you use large quantities of cartridges they can also offer free collection boxes to store your empties in.

Konica Minolta accept returns of cartridges from any manufacturer. They collect for free by UPS, can offer you free collection boxes to store your empty cartridges in if you have many of them, and collect by pallet if you have more than 100 toner cartridges.

Their cartridge recycling service for toner cartridges is free, and they pay the postage to return your boxes by Canada Post. You just need to print off the pre-paid label and attach a copy to every box you wish to send.

Some of Ricoh's cartridges can be recycled locally using your municipality's recycling services. If this isn't the case, you can use a pre-paid label to return them to Ricoh. If you use a higher than normal quantity of Ricoh cartridges, they can offer free boxes, collections or pallet pickups.

Kodak

Through 'Close the Loop' Toshiba offer a free recycling service for any cartridges, bottles and ink from any printer, copier or fax machine.

2. Return to Your Cartridge Supplier

If your manufacturer does not have a takeback scheme, some suppliers of cartridges will offer to take back the empties. Please ask your supplier to see if this is something they can offer you.

3. Refill at a Cartridge Refill Shop

If you can't find somewhere to recycle your cartridge, you may like to have your cartridge refilled at a cartridge refill shop, like Cartridge World shops, saving the need to send it away and saving money on your new cartridges.

High streets of major towns and cities have shops dedicated to refilling cartridges, and will normally be happy to take your empty cartridges if you get them refilled there.

4. Collection Boxes in Shops

As a last resort, many high street shops that sell cartridges, and many charity shops have cartridge recycling boxes and will take any kind of cartridge as they can all be bundled together.

You might like to try Best Buy, Future Shop, or The Source for a cartridge collection box too.

Why Recycle Empty Cartridges?

75% of empty cartridges are not recycled even though there are plenty of reuse and recycling options, and many of them are free and easy to use.

A typical cartridge, with its plastics and electronics, will take up to 1,000 years to degrade in a landfill site, but having an empty cartridge reused saves up to 2.5kg of CO2 compared to making a new cartridge from scratch.

EveryCartridge.com is here to help you to find and use the many services that exist locally and nationally, and cut through the misinformation to ensure that your cartridges do not go to landfill.

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